Re: [Erlyaws-list] Scripting language ports

[Steve V. <vi...@ie...>]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Seb Seb <seb...@gm...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am searching informations about scripting language like Tcl, lua perl...
> wich when used as ports can decode erlang terms. Does anyone know a
> programming language with a good support for this?

For python:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/erlport

For perl:

http://search.cpan.org/~hio/Erlang-Port-0.04/lib/Erlang/Port.pm

I've never used either of them so I have no idea whether they work,
whether they're under active development, etc.

I don't think it would be too hard to write one for other languages,
since you could look at the original C code in the encode and decode
directories found via the link below and translate:

https://github.com/erlang/otp/tree/master/lib/erl_interface/src

Another alternative is to use JSON to let Erlang communicate with the
scripting language, since JSON libs are available for pretty much
every language.

--steve